Okay, so far this is a huge waste of money, I hope it's just user error.
I'm trying to profile a website where the code lives on my box.
1) In VS2008, the top 3 menu items (Profile Performance, Profile Method level Performance, Profile Memory) are grayed out and nothing I do activates them.
2) If I use the Launch ANTS Performance Profile option I then select 'ASP.NET web application hosted in web development'. I point to the same default.aspx file that runs when I run it from within VS2008. However, it doesn't seem to work properly, it sort of works, shows pages etc. but doesn't bring back any data from the database.
3) It doesn't seem to see the .pdb files in the bin directory. It only profiles very basic pages methods, none of the dll's (and I have a lot of dlls with full code and pdb's) get profiled.

So far, honestly, it's a POS. I hope I'm wrong and someone can point me in the direction necessary to profile a web app.
Thanks,
Ken

Okay, POS was a bit strong, sorry. I was just having a frustrating day yesterday. Basically I have 2 questions.

1) How do I profile a web application in VS2008 that profiles everything in the solution

2) or if that isn't possible, how do I profile a web application in such a way that it loads the proper config files and uses the .pdb files so I profile everything and not just the first couple of .aspx pages.

Occasionally, you may experience problems accessing the full menus of the ANTS addins in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 in that the menu items are grayed out entirely.

The following actions can be used to try to correct the problem:

1. Export your current VS settings into a file via Tools->Import And Export Settings
2. Choose the Visual Studio command prompt tool from the start menu, under the Visual Studio program group.
3. Execute the following commands:

Usually the quickest way to get up and running is try a different machine (virtual machines work well too) or a even different log-in account. I find that Windows environments (.NET, Visual Studio settings etc) are not 100% stable and the chances are very good that a different environment will help.